[Radiant] WYSIWY Get plugin

[Justin Grammens]

This topic has opened up some great discussion! I
think that I can understand everyone's side of the
debate. I was by no means saying when I replied to the
original posting by Todd that it should be standard
with Radiant. I like the simple approach that Radiant
takes by not trying to be everything to everyone. I
therefore don't see the problem with it being a plugin
and letting people use it they wish or not. I also am
not saying that the WYSIWYG editor needs to allow for
all sorts of markup. Just some simple bold, underline
and headings would really go a long ways to helping
Radiant become more popular with a larger user-base.
And again, install the plug-in if you want, otherwise
don't.
I applaud anyone who wishes to use their own personal
time to develop software and contribute it back to the
community. I look forward to seeing how you tackle
this problem Todd and looking back through this
discussion thread it looks like some others may have
tackled this problem of WYSIWYG editing well. I'm
still new to Radiant and the mailing list, so forgive
my ramble, but  I am really impressed by the power and
flexibility of Radiant. I'm planning to try and use it
in more and more websites that are looking for a
flexible and easy to maintain CMS solution and I hope
someday to contribute code myself. Please keep me
posted on the beta code Todd.
Thanks,
Justin

--- Todd Baur <todd at tackletechnology.org> wrote:

> Sorry, I have to disagree with you completely. The
> non-technical  
> person is non-technical because they choose not to
> or their cognitive  
> patterns align them to excel in other ways. You
> can't force either to  
> change. And why can't a website be a toy? Relax! I
> appreciate your  
> dedication to the craft, but not everyone is at your
> level. Remember,  
> lots of people still use Word to create sites. (I'm
> not arguing the  
> validity of such a practice, but realize this is
> what is going on in  
> the world with non-technical people).
> 
> Secondly, the majority of humans are monkey-see
> monkey-do. The  
> industry wouldn't be where it is today without
> WYSIWYG, why I bet the  
> last time you used Dreamweaver you didn't code 100%
> in code view.  
> Imagine how slowly computers would have progressed
> without seeing  
> what you get? The value of the computer in business
> exponentially  
> grew when the GUI made usage easy!
> 
> I am working on this very rapidly, and it will be a
> plugin. I'm not  
> looking to take over the code or something else
> wacky, just  
> contribute something I feel others may want to use.
> It's a PLUGIN and  
> it will be available for beta by the end of the
> month.
> ~*~*~~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
> Todd Baur
> todd at tackletechnology.org
> 858-752-1459
> 11814 Westview Parkway
> Unit #176
> San Diego, CA 92126
> 
> 
> 
> On Oct 6, 2006, at 7:13 PM,
> radiant-request at lists.radiantcms.org wrote:
> 
> > No, for the non-technical person they really need
> to become more  
> > technical.
> > This isn't 1999 when websites were toys - today we
> care something  
> > about
> > semantics and accessibility. I think we should
> stop saying "here is  
> > your
> > text box, enter content in it the way it looks
> good to you".
> >
> > I've introduced Textile markup to many (Markdown,
> because of indenting
> > semantics, is not my choice for textboxes) young
> people and they  
> > never had
> > any trouble getting it. As for the ignorant older
> people who just  
> > want to
> > put stuff online without caring about anything you
> tell them, I  
> > wouldn't
> > even let them near textboxes.
> 
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